Small Business Personnel Practices

Abstract

A growing interest in small business personnel management is shared by personnel specialists and members of the small business community, as demonstrated by a number of recent articles in professional publications, some of which--like this journal--have devoted entire issues to the topic. In part, this interest may stem from employee concern for "quality of work life" and increasing legal constraints and directives from various government agencies. However, a more significant impetus for this surge of interest may be a concern for the part that personnel practices may play in small business success or failure.